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What Not, Rose Macaulay’s 1918 wild and witty speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics, influenced Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Our guest is literary historian Kate Macdonald, who wrote the first collection of scholarly essays on Macaulay and spearheads the publishing company Handheld Press.

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For this week’s mini, we’re taking “beach reads” literally, and have lined up a list of novels set at or near the seaside. Our selections aren’t necessarily light or fluffy, but they’re definitely page turners. So grab your favorite literary tote and some SPF, and take a listen! 

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Joining us to discuss Tess Slesinger and her brilliant 1934 novel, The Unpossessed, is her son, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker and novelist Peter Davis, and cultural critic and professor Paula Rabinowitz. Extremely popular for a brief period, Slesinger’s satirical novel about Depression-era, left-wing New Yorkers was printed four times within a month of publication making her a minor celebrity almost overnight. 

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Join us as we learn more about the first known female tattoo artist in the United States, Maud Wagner. Born in 1877, Maud grew up to become a circus acrobat and, once most of her body was covered with tattoos, a walking exhibition unto herself. 

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Lucy Scholes rejoins us this week to discuss Kay Dick and her lost dystopian masterpiece from 1977, They, which has been newly republished by McNally Editions. Lucy, who is the Senior Editor of McNally Editions, rediscovered Dick after coming across her obituary and subsequently wrote about the novel in her column for The Paris Review, “Re-Covered.” 

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From the book that originally inspired Julian Fellowes to write the screenplays for both Gosford Park and Downton Abbey to Elizabeth Jane Howard’s series The Cazalet Chronicles, in this week's mini we’re chatting about books with Downton-esque vibes. 

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Did you know that Charlotte Brontë’s close friend Mary Taylor was also a novelist? Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, who co-authored the 2017 non-fiction book A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, join us to discuss Taylor’s 1890 novel Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago. Far from being a love story, Miss Miles makes the forceful argument that all women ought to have the right and the wherewithal to provide for themselves. 

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In this week’s mini, we’re exploring the work of contemporary fine artists Faith Ringgold and Bisa Butler, whose quilts are inspired by a rich African-American quilting tradition, and Adeline Harris Sears’s 19th century signature quilt with autographs by notables including Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

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In 2021, the British Library Women Writers Series published an edition of Dorothy Evelyn’s Smith’s quietly joyful and sometimes dark coming-of-age novel, O, the Brave Music. Joining us is the series consultant and author of the book’s afterword, Dr. Simon Thomas. Sometimes compared to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I Capture the Castle, O, the Brave Music is set before the first world war and has a female narrator looking back on her childhood as a minister’s daughter on England’s moors. 

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In this week’s mini episode on “unnatural mothers,” we discuss classics such as Anna Karenina and The Awakening and more contemporary works, including Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood and Rachel Cusk’s memoir A Life’s Work. 

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